The Pond at Montgeron

The Pond at Montgeron painting was created in 1876 by a French painter Claude Monet, in Impressionism style. The original size of the painting is 173x194cm. The painting was painted in oil painting on canvas. This painting is currently collected at State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. This is one of four decorative panels commissioned by the financier Ernest Hoschede, amongst the first patrons of the Impressionists. Together with three other works by Monet ("Corner of the Garden at Montgeron", St Petersburg, Hermitage; "Turkeys", Paris, Louvre; "The Hunt", Paris, priv. coll.) it was intended to adorn the large salon of Hoschede's country chateau, Rottenburg, at Montgeron. The works were created at the very height of Impressionism. Setting themselves the aim of conveying a brief moment in the changing existence of nature, the Impressionists filled their works with vibrant light and air. For these masters of plein-air painting, the symbol of the dynamism and changeability of